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NEWS Jane Stancill
The News & Observer Tribune News Service
A noose found outside the main student center at Duke University thrust the campus into turmoil Wednesday, prompting an investigation, a student march and a forum that drew hundreds to the steps of Duke Chapel. “One person put up that noose, but this is the multitude of people who got together to say, ‘That’s not the Duke we want, that’s not the Duke we’re here for and that’s not the Duke we’re here to create,’” Duke President Richard Brodhead said to a sea of people standing at the center of campus late Wednesday afternoon. The gathering was the culmination of a tense day. The noose was discovered around 2 a.m. in the Bryan Center plaza. Word spread quickly on social media, as students posted photographs of the yellow rope dangling from a tree. Duke police responded, and officials launched an investigation to hold the perpetrators accountable. The incident caused distress on what should have been a day of excitement as the Duke men’s basketball team prepares to play in the Final Four this weekend. Tours were underway for parents and high school students considering Duke, and the campus was bright with spring blooms. By midday, the Black Student Alliance led a crowd of students who marched to the area where the noose was found. There, tacked to a tree trunk, a sign said: “To the cowards of Duke Uni-
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versity. We are not afraid. We stand together.” People huddled, some arm in arm. A circle of students embraced and bowed their heads, as if in prayer. Amani Carson, a sophomore from Rye, N.Y., said she had passed by the spot about 11 p.m. Tuesday and saw nothing. Then, around 2 a.m., social media exploded with news of the discovery. She kept turning her phone off and on, trying to process what she was reading. “Is this a joke? Because this can’t happen,” she recalled thinking. “But it did.” Carson said she had hosted an African-American high school student last weekend and was thankful the noose didn’t appear then. But now she wonders what she’ll tell the student. “I don’t know how in good conscience I can tell her to come here, because I don’t even know if I feel safe,” said Carson, who was raised in Massachusetts. “Like, what am I supposed to say?” People made their way to the chapel late in the day where speakers, one by one, denounced the act. A Duke administrator estimated the crowd at more than 1,000. Some held signs, and others hugged with tears in their eyes. “I cannot imagine any one of my classmates’ hands tying that knot,” said Lavanya Sunder, president of Duke Student Government. But she added that she could not deny the racial tension that has escalated at Duke in recent weeks. “It would be to invalidate the experiences of students of color who go every day, feeling unsupported or under-
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Duke campus rallies against racism after noose found
Two duke students embrace after forum. estimated or invisible.” Last week at Duke, a student reported hearing racist comments from another student on campus on March 22. The university is investigating that incident. A group called the Duke People of Color Caucus said the student, a black female, encountered white male students on Duke’s East Campus who sang the same racist chant that was recited by members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity at the University of Oklahoma. A video of that chant went viral and prompted the shutdown of the fraternity and the expulsion of two students. Since the March 22 event, some Duke students started a social media campaign under the hashtag #What-
WeNeedFromDuke. Dozens of Post-It Notes outside the Black Student Alliance office offered suggestions, such as, “I need Duke to value its black students beyond a basketball court” and “I need to feel like I belong” and “Stop saying affirmative action got me here. I got me here!” Some black students speculated Wednesday that the noose represented a backlash to their comments during the past week and a half. On Wednesday, the Duke People of Color Caucus posted a photograph of the noose with this statement: “To all black students, staff, faculty, and/or Durhamites on campus and in the area: Please take care of yourselves and each other. This campus is not a safe space,
and has proven beyond any doubt that it is a hostile environment for any and all black people.” At the chapel forum, Provost Sally Kornbluth elicited cheers when she encouraged faculty to talk about racism in class. “You have black students in your classrooms, you need to understand what they’re feeling,” she said. “You need to think about your roles as mentors, as teachers, as role models. We all need to be together in setting up a safe space.” Brodhead and Kornbluth pledged to implement a list of suggested changes from the Black Student Alliance. Brodhead talked with the group Wednesday in a meeting that had been set up before the noose incident.
Duke also required residence hall advisers to set up informal sessions for discussion across campus for the rest of this week. Jason Ross, president of the National Panhellenic Council, said the huge crowd at the chapel event brought tears to his eyes. But he pointed out that it took a noose to bring that many people together. The reality, he said, is that microaggressions occur every day on the campus. “We should always be willing to speak up in our peer groups, in our social organizations whenever things are said or done that may offend others,” said Ross, who is African-American. “That’s a Duke thing to do, that’s a human thing to do, that’s the right thing to do.”
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NEWS
Alx Stickel News Editor
Ryan Vasso, English literature graduate and CEO of BasedIn, brings critical thinking and a startup drive to his company which he launched through Venture College with two other individuals. Zach Richardson, computer science major and CTO of BasedIn, brings finance, accounting and computer science skills to Vasso’s startup. These two students, one former and one current, praise the experience Venture College, which is run through Boise State, gave them that classes at the university never could. Rather than exploring academic theories in the structure and confinement of a classroom, Richardson and Vasso test business
ideas in the “real world” and learn from the successes or failures. “I took a sales class here at Boise State and I never sold a thing,” Vasso said. “I learned theoretically how to sell. I went to Venture College and within two weeks I had to go out and talk to real businesses and try to sell a service. So to me that was the real learning.” Now the BasedIn staff is up to 17 members, 13 of them students. Most of the students are paid interns and are sought out during their freshman and sophomore years because they are “clean slates.” These students provide a service to the Boise area. BasedIn takes all data available online on local businesses and, through an algorithm, generates a business score.
This score shows consumers the online reputation of a company. Once the score is generated, BasedIn can offer free tips to a business on how to improve their score. “We are really helping businesses realize that people care about their online presence and you just can’t tell people you’re a great business. You have to show it through data across the web because that is how they find you,” Richardson said. “And that’s how they pull the trust for a business.” Vasso acknowledged the reason BasedIn could not charge businesses for help improving their score was because it would tarnish the company’s credibility. “There’s a conflict of interest if we were to say ‘pay us to get a better score,’” Vasso said. “We would lose
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Richardson and Vasso run BasedIn. all our legitimacy and that’s not what we are going for.” Vasso and Richardson want to emphasize having a business background is not crucial to Venture College or working at BasedIn. Cross-discipline skills and an entrepreneurial drive
are given priority when considered to either start a business or join a current one. “As entrepreneurs, we’re all in,” Vasso said. “Once I knew I got accepted to Venture College, I sold my rental property so I’d have
enough cash to run my business. Four months in, I quit my job so I could do it full time. I’ve got a wife and three kids; you usually don’t take an entrepreneur class at Boise State and quit your job. You just go on to the next class.”
Michael Muskal
Los Angeles Times Tribune News Service
A former University of Mississippi student has been indicted on federal civil rights charges, accused of placing a noose and a Confederate symbol around the neck of a statue of James Meredith, the civil rights leader who desegregated the school, it was announced on Friday. Graeme Phillip Harris is accused of hanging the rope
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and an old Georgia flag that bears a Confederate symbol around the neck of the statue. Meredith was the first African-American to break the color line in 1962 and enroll in what had been an all-white university. Federal troops protected Meredith so he could enter the school in Oxford, Miss., and overcome the opposition of the state’s white government. According to the Justice Department, Harris faces two counts of violating civil
rights laws. One count accuses Harris, who is no longer at the university, of conspiracy and alleges that he used the cover of darkness early in the morning of Feb. 16, 2014, to deface the statue with racist symbols. The other count accuses him of using the threat of force “to threaten and intimidate African-American students and employees” at the school because of their race. “This shameful and ignorant act is an insult to all
Americans and a violation of our most strongly-held values,” Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said in a statement. “No one should ever be made to feel threatened or intimidated because of what they look like or who they are. “By taking appropriate action to hold wrongdoers accountable, the Department of Justice is sending a clear message that flagrant infringements of our historic civil rights will not go unnoticed or unpunished.”
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NEWS
Anthony Adams Staff writer
Boise State extended the withdrawal policy this semester, giving students the opportunity to withdraw by March 20. According to registrar Kris Collins, the policy change was partially due to the number of students and professors who felt that six weeks was not enough time to make an educated decision on whether or not to withdraw. In the end, the withdrawal policy has been extended to a 10-week time period.
“It allows students who are struggling with a particular class, for whatever reason it may be, to drop the course and focus more on their other studies without harming their cumulative GPA,” said Bryce Pielstick, business major. The Arbiter surveyed 100 people and 100 percent of those asked approved of this change in policy. “This is such a wonderful change to the system,” said Allyson Corsetti, business major. “In my experience, I have a test the day before, so how I do on this test will let me know whether or not to
take a W.” There are risks, however. Students may misuse the withdrawal policy to maintain a high GPA, and professors may advise them to do so in order to have a higher passing rate for students in the class. There are some concerns that students abusing the system to increase their GPAs will diminish the credibility of Boise State. “I understand and agree with the classmates of mine who feel that they are being cheated, because other students won’t have to try as hard to keep a good GPA,”
said Dominic Christianson, junior criminal justice major. “However, I feel that college is a place for trial and error and the extension of the withdrawal policy will accommodate that.” Unlike the drop policy, which allows students to get out of a class without any penalties, a student who withdraws from a class will not be refunded any money from that academic semester. The maximum number of classes a student can withdraw from during their time at Boise State is 10. To stay current with the changes go to registrar.boisestate.edu/.
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Study Tip: Break down large projects Maria Shimel
Online Testing Center
The last few weeks of the semester can sometimes feel overwhelming because as large projects tend to pop up all the same time. Project management is an awesome skill that you can draw on to help make life easier for yourself and promote academic success. Make a list of all the projects, papers and tests that are due and mark them down in your favorite planner. Go through each project and break down the steps that need to be completed into a small manageable list. An example of this is breaking down the final paper. Three days of
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library research, one day of Internet research, two interviews, first rough draft, second rough draft, third rough draft and final product. Take this list of tasks and assign them days on your calendar between now and when the project are due. Repeat the process with all of your large tasks and feel
the stress melt away. This process will give you actual to-do items to complete each day, without anything that sucks the life out of you. Before you know it, the paper will be done and ready to turn in long before the traditional panic attacks and all-nighters start stressing out your classmates.
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opinion
Idaho must hasten cannabis oil legalization Leslie Boston-Hyde Copy Editor
A close vote of 39-30 sent Senate Bill 1146aa, or Alexis’ Law, to Gov. Otter shows that Idaho is slowly moving towards legalizing marajuana-based forms of medicine. The bill allows a parent, grandparent or guardian to consult a child’s physician about using non-psychotropic cannabis oil to treat epilepsy or other severe seizure disorders. Unsurprisingly, the bill has been met with strong opposition.
“This is not hemp oil you can buy at the co-op. This is marijuana, a Schedule One drug, and Idaho will be violating federal law if this passes,” Elisha Figueroa, director of the Idaho Office of Drug Policy, said to lawmakers on March 30. Currently 20 states and Washington D.C. have legalized medical marijuana, and Idaho has a great opportunity to have a progressive stance on the matter. Cannabis oil contains extracted cannabinoids, chemicals related to THC
in cannabis plants. While some cannabinoids are toxic, two that researchers are focusing on, THC and CBD, are proving to have many medical benefits. These two cannabinoids would be revolutionary for medicine. While it is nearly impossible to calculate a dose for smoked marijuana, smokeless cannabis is a viable form of medicine because it is measurable. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, THC can decrease nausea and increase appetite, which are major side effects in certain ill-
nesses, diseases and medical treatments. The FDA has already approved some THC-based medications to treat these symptoms. CBD, a cannabinoid that does not alter mind or behavior, may be useful in treating pain, inflammation and mental illnesses and controlling epileptic seizures. In the 2014 Wall Street Journal article “New York Does Medical Marijuana Right,” Steven R. Patierno, Deputy Director of the Duke Cancer Institute and professor of medicine at Duke University School
of Medicine, discussed his support for cannabis. “(T)he introduction of smokeless cannabis in dosage form will immediately ease human pain and suffering and help to move medical marijuana from the underground economy to the mainstream of the nation’s health-care system,” Patierno said.
Letter to the editor: University Censorship and “The Vault” Ryan Blacketter
Former adjunct professor of English
The trouble started after I uploaded “My Dad, the Pornographer” onto Blackboard for the advanced fiction workshop I was teaching at Boise State. The essay had just been published in The New York Times. I was moved by the honesty of the piece—the intense riskiness of its theme—and hoped to find room for it in my class schedule. I told my students we’d discuss it midterm. Soon students began complaining to me and to the department about the essay. A senior faculty member suggested I avoid teaching it altogether.
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Five weeks into the term, my classroom went to pieces. Students were upset, and I asked what was going on. A few said my instruction was too harsh. One young woman left the room crying. Another said she didn’t want to read that essay on Blackboard. After this class meeting, I emailed students that we were discussing “My Dad, the Pornographer” the next class. Two days later, dean Tony Roark emailed me, telling me to meet with him and an HR representative in his office, scheduled the morning before I was going to teach the offending essay. He assured me that my firing had nothing to do with the essay. I hesitate to say that univer-
sity administrators are liars. Instead, they function more as guardians of information. They serve the organization, protecting its members and its brand. Every university has a vault of secrets. The vault is full of university intentions and motivations. The public gets a different story. Oregon State University, for instance, effectively shut down a conservative newspaper by dumping its dispenser bins in a field. Since the university couldn’t admit censorship, they put that motive in the vault. Publicly, they said the bin removal was a “campus beautification project.” Similarly, English department chair, Michelle Payne,
said my firing was “serious,” but claimed legal reasons prevented her from discussing it. Payne makes harmful insinuations, while claiming to be restrained by a gag order. Her statement amounts to the sort of falseness and hiding that we have sadly come to expect from university officials. The fact is, Boise State has a troubling history of censorship. In February 2008, after The Arbiter published an article questioning dorm safety, copies were removed from several dorms. Resident advisors cited a gag order called “contractual obligations,” and could not talk to journalists. In August 2008, Boise State ordered the removal of 15,000 condom coupons
from coupon books destined for student eyes. In August 2005, Boise State censored fliers that promoted university films and lectures by covering them with stickers to be “less offensive.” In March 2015, Boise State fired an “at will” creative writing adjunct and gave him a lifetime ban for planning to teach the controversial essay “My Dad, the Pornographer.” My father, BSU graduate Jon Blacketter, who was a corrections counselor at the Old Penitentiary, would not have been proud of his alma mater’s many acts of censorship. A native Idahoan, he was independent, intelligent and suspicious of giant corporations. He would’ve said that the recent campus
guest lectures promoting free speech make for a pretty decoration but that few would be fooled. In short, the chair’s assertion that my firing had nothing to do with “My Dad, the Pornographer”—at a university whose administrators censored condom coupons for adults, for crying out loud—is unconvincing. Reed College’s rabblerouser Jeremiah True has demonstrated that students do not have the right to act in an aggressive manner that disrupts the free exchange of ideas. Students and faculty, right and left, have limits to their speech and behavior. It’s time we hold university officials similarly accountable.
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opinion
Systems of oppression within media need to be questioned Justin Kirkham Managing Editor
Just yesterday, the band Black Pussy, a self-proclaimed stoner pop group, performed at the Neurolux. Their name alone has signaled outrage from Portland-centered groups, and over and a petition for the band to change their name is circulating. This same consciousness has yet to take hold on a large scale in Boise. Do we want a band as such to be normal and conventional within the Boise area? Probably not. Generally, socially conscious people will simply choose not to attend such a pointedly racist and sexist show. It is important to express disdain for allowing such a thing to be normal, accepted and perpetuated within our immediate societal constructs. The recent court decision circling Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” is bringing a resurgence
in popularity to the 2013 hit. Despite the negative ruling against the song and its infringement upon Marvin Gaye’s “Got To Give It Up,” Thicke’s tune is, once again, blaring on radio stations. “Blurred Lines” is an upbeat tune about sexual force and domestication, employing what some bloggers have referred to as “rapey” lyrics— three things that most individuals would not encourage. Yet, the video is supported with over 370 million views on YouTube. In the past two years, there has been plenty of media coverage calling Thicke and Williams out for the oppressive and grotesque nature of their song. Listeners know what the song alludes to—despite protests from Thicke—but they choose to continually allow it to shape attitudes around them. This makes the ordeal that much more daunting. In 2013, the University College London student union
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banned the song, joining 20 other U.K. student unions. “Has anyone heard Robin Thicke’s new rape song?” feminist blogger Lisa Huynh wrote in April 2013. It’s pretty clear the “Blurred Lines” is not based in the deepest of social conscience. But, the fact that we, as a society, are ignoring the implications presented within this song and others is horrifying. Music should not be censored in any vein, and artists have the right to create whatever they would like. It is our right to determine whether we support their messages. Progress comes from questioning and critiquing. This can’t happen if we are happy to dance along to the sweet melody of objectification. Sitting back and ignoring the fact that a song is promoting something starkly discomforting is just as detrimental as the song itself. We need to choose to fight against what is “okay” in media. There will always be systems of thought that are worrying. Even so, ignoring a song’s lyrics and posting it on Facebook because it’s “so catchy” simply promotes passive acceptance—a mindset with the same implications as one directly oppressive. Voicing the fact that something is discomforting or wrong and working to explain why such a system, promoted and cemented by media, is harmful is integral to progress. It all boils down to a simple solution. Don’t let oppressive thought processes shape society while you change the channel. Question them and signal forward action.
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Adversity doesn’t equal entitlement Gabrielle Boliou Benjamin Chafetz Staff Writers
Discussing key ideas such as morality versus legality and other touchy subjects is the object of this column. The ideas discussed within belong to the authors alone and do not represent the viewpoint of The Arbiter. In the movie “Rocky,” Rocky Balboa said, “You, me or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward; how much you can take and keep moving forward. But you gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you wanna be because of him, or her or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain’t you.” We’re talking about two opposing mindsets. The first mindset encompasses the fact that you, and you alone, are responsible for both your successes and your failures. Life hits you hard, people hit you hard, but at
the end of the day, you’re the one who pulls yourself back up and keeps moving. The other mindset is that there are more variables at play, that you are justified in pointing fingers when you aren’t where you want to be. Your success in life should not be dictated by the struggles themselves, but how you handle them. Experiencing adversity does not entitle you to charity. The interesting thing is when you read or hear stories you root for the underdog, the person against whom all the odds are stacked. But he or she fights back anyway. When you tell someone to take ownership of their life experiences, it sounds heartless. But what about the flip side? What about telling them that it’s always someone else’s fault, that you, the victim, only have partial responsibility for fighting back? Many adopt this mindset because they think they have a safety net of financial and human resources.
Some people say, “This group of people needs help because they cannot overcome an obstacle on their own.” But how would you feel if someone told you that you were unable to do something as a result of your race, sexual orientation or gender? What if someone told you that no matter how hard you fought you would always have to rely on someone else to give you a leg up? We are not saying that everything is your fault—life does hit you hard, and so do other people. We’re not saying that sympathy is undeserved. We’re simply saying that you have the choice to get back up. If you make the choice to get back up, that is where the merit is deserved. This column is part one of a two-part series exploring society’s responses to uncontrollable circumstance (race, gender and sexual orientation). Next week’s column will critique who deserves privilege and the consequences of having that privilege.
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‘The Cure at Troy’ plays off issues of honor Patty Bowen Culture Editor
For its final production of the season, the Boise State Theatre Arts Department will be performing “The Cure at Troy,” a verse adaptation by Seamus Heaney of Sophocles’ play “Philoctetes.” “(The Cure at Troy) is about overcoming pride and not wallowing in your own self-pity anymore and not feeling sorry for yourself,” said Evan Stevens, junior theatre arts major and portrayer of Philoctetes. “Basically it’s accepting other people’s generosity and also giving generosity.” This message is seen most prominently in Philoctetes’ struggle to decide whether or not to accept the help of Neoptolemus to get off the Island of Lemnos where Philoctetes has been marooned for 10 years. During the Siege of Troy, an oracle foretells the Greeks will need the help of Philoctetes and his bow of Hercules to win the Trojan War making Neoptolemus and Odysseus come to fetch him.
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Connection to modern war
“The Cure at Troy” focuses on issues of honor and courage, and explores ethics within military duty. The character Neoptolemus is given the option to do what he views as morally right versus following the orders that he has been told are right. “One of the goals of this show is to show people how to stick with your word,” said Cameron Needham, senior theatre arts and kinesiology major who plays Neoptolemus. “There is this weird dichotomy of how you’re suppose to act to completely follow orders or take things on your own.” According to Needham, many soldiers today still struggle with this issue: following their commander’s orders or their conscience. Before performing the play, Needham, Stevens and David Kepner, junior theatre major who plays Odysseus, went through a three hour bootcamp with Boise State 2012 graduate Lauren Jones to help
each of them understand militaristic mentalities. Each of the three actors went through individual training and conditioning to understand how their specific character would act within the context of the other two.
Use of the chorus
The shifting mentalities that Needham, Stevens and Kepner had to go through to get into character were not foreign to several of the other actors. “A Greek chorus is really challenging because they provide a commentary and an insight,” said Anne Price, professor in the Theatre Arts Department and director of “The Cure of Troy.” “It’s always fun to wrestle with these Greek chorus’ because they have these particular roles and finding conventions in the production that make the audience aware of those different parts that they play in the script.” In order to perform with chorus, junior theatre arts majors Kala Hanson and Samantha Lancaster and senior theatre arts major Erik Loustens
to had to divide up lines and create their own characters. “We just found when we were going through that different lines they had different personalities. There was one that was more compassionate, one that was more practical, and one that was more cynical,” Price said. “We assigned an actress to each one of those energies.” Although the lines were divided, Hanson, Lancaster and Loustens still had to work as a whole and synchronize several of their movements to match the flow of the play.
“I think the function of any Greek chorus is to be part of the action, but hint at how the audience should feel,” Hanson said.
Casting “The Cure at Troy”
According to Needham, before being cast as an actor in “the Cure at Troy”, he already had a strong relationship with both Stevens and Kepner. Needham feels that although he had to switch his initial mentality toward Stevens and Kepner, these preexisting relationships helped strengthen the dynamic of the
characters each actor is playing on-stage. “This is the shortest show I’ve been in, but it takes the most out of me just because I have to break my heart when I stab a friend in the back,” Needham said. “The magnificent thing about theatre is that one moment on stage, or one inflection of a line, can completely change someone’s life.” “The Cure at Troy” will be showing in the Danny Peterson Theatre in the Morrison Center April 9-11 and 15-18 at 7:30 p.m. and April 12 at 2:00 p.m.
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Library hosts ‘50th Anniversary Juried Art Exhibition’ Patty Bowen Culture Editor
The Albertsons library, traded its words for brushstrokes to host the “50th Anniversary Juried Art Exhibition.” The “50th Anniversary Juried Art Exhibition” is a celebration of the founding of Albertsons Library 50 years ago, as well as the artistic spirit the campus holds. “This exhibit is in celebration of the importance that the arts play in a vibrant academic environment,” said Gwyn Hervochon, librarian and archivist at Albertsons Library. According to Hervochon, who put together the exhibit with the help of associate professor and li-
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brarian Elaine Watson, the exhibit’s call for pieces was well received. To pick pieces for the exhibit, two professors in the Department of Art were drafted to sift through the 93 submissions and pick the 36 that were displayed in the exhibit.
Artist Spotlight
One of the artists featured in the exhibit was Boise State graduate Luma Jasim, who got her degree in visual arts major in 2013. Before immigrating to the United States, Jasim lived in Baghdad, Iraq where she got her MA in graphic design. Jasim feels that the inspiration for most of her artwork stems from the experiences she had living through the Iran-Iraq War, the Gulf War
and the invasion of Iraq. According to Jasim, these experiences translated into an artistic drive that forces her to create art in a way she feels is innate. “Art is not by learning,” Jasim said. “You cannot be an artist by learning. You can learn some methods and techniques but to be an artist is something that you can create without someone teaching you anything. Any artist will feel this before they get to any school. They will feel like they want to do it, and they cannot stop doing it.”
The Role of Artwork on Campus
The exhibit displays pieces from artists throughout the valley, as well as several pieces by Boise State undergradu-
ates and professors. This incorporation of campus art was the most important part of the exhibit for several students, including senior graphic design major Brock Landrum. “If you have things like this where (students) are showing off their work, you find out more about what’s actually happening on campus and what artists are actually doing while they are here,” Landrum said. According to Hervochon, it is important that students are seeing support from institutions on campus. “We’re a research library, and we’re very research focused,” Hervochon said. “I would love to see more opportunities to celebrate the artistic life of Boise State,
because there is a lot of talent here.” According to Hervochon, it is highly likely that a gallery exhibit similar to “50th Anniversary Juried Art Exhibition” will again showcase the work of student and local artists.“There’s a pretty decent turnout for people to come support what students are doing, even though I know some of these pieces are from the community,” Landrum said. “There is a lot of support for the artists and it’s cool to see that there’s a chance for me to show my art somewhere.”
Pursuing a career as an artist
According to Jasim, it can be tough for artists to make a living off their pas-
sion. For this reason Jasim feels that students should put time into evaluating whether or not their passion for artwork is enough to negate the small income that will probably meet them after graduation. “If you love it you will find a way to find a life out of it, but there are a lot of people who think art is easy and all fun,” Jasim said. That being said, Jasim doesn’t feel that she could give up being an artist. “Art is a really spiritual thing that is important to any life and the world without art is nothing,” Jasim said. The “50th Anniversary Juried Art Exhibition” will be on display from April 2May 3 on the second floor of the Albertsons Library.
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Sports & rec
Kyle Moeller Staff Writer
It was a productive weekend for the Boise State track and field team at the Stanford Invitational. While many individuals had breakthrough performances, seniors Emma Bates and David Elliott stole the show . Bates bested her own school record in the 5000 meters by posting a time of 15:32.46. She finished the race in seventh place, second collegian, which also set a personal record. Despite the personal best, Bates knows she is still capable of more. “It’s hard getting back on the track again,” Bates told Flotrack. “We’re gearing towards the end of the season.” Elliot also set a personal
record in the 5000 meter by finishing first in his section with a time of 13:50.10. His time is the second fastest in school history. “What they have worked for over the last two to three years has finally come to form,” head coach Corey Ihmels said. “David won his heat and PR’ed and Emma PR’ed over 5000 meters. I think both those kids can continue to get better as we move forward.” Freshman Michael Vennard ran 13:51.86 in his first outdoor race. Despite some success, Ihmels thinks there were plenty of learning experiences in the team’s first outdoor meet. “I thought we had a good first meet,” Ihmels said. “We had some really good things happen and then we had some mediocre things
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Bates, Elliott steal the show at Stanford
Emma Bates competing at Stanford. happen. But that’s just how the first meet goes.” As the season progresses, the team looks to improve They believe in one another and have faith their leader will get them to where they want to be.
“I thought we would come out a lot faster than we did,” Elliott said. “I felt confident in us. Great coaching helped prepare us and come in with the right mindset.” The Broncos had four 400-meter hurdlers finish
Maite Zabala returns home Staff Writer
Maite Zabala has finally returned full circle back to her hometown of Boise as an assistant soccer coach at Boise State. Zabala returns to Boise with 14 years of coaching experience at the Division I level, most recently as the associate head coach at San Francisco. Zabala’s move from the Bay Area back to her hometown of Boise has been a welcomed homecoming for her. Differences on the Boise State cam-
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pus and in its sports programs have not gone unnoticed by Zabala. “It was kind of cool to see what these guys have been doing here at Boise State,” Zabala said. “Being able to come back and be a part of something that’s growing like the rest of the athletic department, and knowing where Jim (Thomas) and Ed (Moore) want to take it, I thought it was a good chance to be a part of something special.” Zabala was a three-time AllPacific 10 Conference selection for goalkeeper at Cal.
The two-time team MVP holds the school record for career shutouts and was inducted into the Cal Athletics Hall of Fame in 2011. After her college career, Zabala was selected in the first round of the Women’s United Soccer Association draft.
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“It was a blast. It was a ton of fun straight out of college,” Zabala said. “At the time, they said it was one of the best (teams) in the world … all the top players came in so it was fun in terms of the talent that was there playing. I really enjoyed it.”
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in the top 12 at the Stanford Invite, led by senior Jordin Andrade with a time of 50.56. The team knows that it’s a long season and they can’t focus on the results of the first weekend. There is am-
ple of opportunities to get better and improve. “We just gotta continue to get better,” Ihmels said. “It is a long season and we do not want to get too excited about what happened last weekend.”
Zabala’s transition from an athlete to a coach has been interesting for her. She noticed how much she has had to change her mentality. “It’s interesting going from playing professionally to coaching. I think they are two very different things. I think you have to become more aware of how you do things if you’re going to coach it,” Zabala said. “I’ve had to learn how to still be competitive but start leading by what I say, not what I do. When moving from one team to another, there is always the task of getting to know an already established team and becoming a part of that group. Zabala has done this by spend-
ing time with her athletes one on one—either during their study sessions or while traveling from game to game. “I’ve gotten to know them individually and it’s fun to see the different dynamics in a group and see how different personalities fit in,” Zabala said. For the future, Zabala would like to see the team preform as well as the other rising sports here at Boise State. Zabala is hoping that the Broncos are able to claim MW titles as soon as the season begins. Boise State will travel to Pullman, Washington for a spring game against Washington State on April 18.
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Football prepares for spring game Leslie Boston-Hyde Copy Editor
While the Sept. 4 opener against Washington may be months away, football fever is back in Boise. The Boise State football team is gearing up for their annual Blue and Orange Spring Game on April 11. After a successful 2014 season, the Broncos are looking to replace key players that were lost. Here are a few key points to watch for during Saturday’s game.
The day of the quarterback
At 5:11 p.m., the winningest quarterback in football history, Kellen Moore, will be honored with a video tribute and presentation from head coach Bryan Harsin. “He represents what we’re
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all about, and really that’s what Saturday’s all about is giving back to him,” Harsin said. Moore will not have his jersey retired, but Harsin said no one will be wearing the No. 11 for “a long time.” Following the Moore tribute, the public can have their first chance watching all four quarterbacks currently competing for the starting position. Redshirt sophomores Ryan Finley and Thomas Stuart, redshirt freshman Alex Ogle and true freshman Brett Rypien are in a tight race. During the Saturday scrimmage, Finley had a 60 percent completion rate, Stuart above 70 percent, Rypien at 60 percent and Ogle at 50 percent. While the spring game will allow the public to spectate, the starting position won’t be decided until fall.
Running game
With Jay Ajayi entering the NFL Draft and the recent announcement of redshirt junior Charles Bertoli leaving the team for personal reasons, the running game is undergoing changes. In the Saturday scrimmage, Harsin was impressed with the performances of senior Jack Fields, redshirt junior Devan Demas and redshirt freshman Cory Young. Young had opportunities to run on the goalline. “We were really looking for physical downhill, hit-the-hole hard runs, and that’s what we got,” Harsin said of the running game. Sophomore Jeremy McNichols is still recovering from hernia surgery and won’t be competing in the spring game. Until McNich-
ols returns for fall camp, it will remain unclear who may be able to step up to fill Ajayi’s role on the team.
Draw the lines
Harsin is pleased with the depth of the defensive line. The team has been able to rearrange players and create multiple lines to substitute. According to Harsin, this will be a powerful weapon when the Broncos face offenses that don’t huddle. The offensive line and defensive lines have had great battles in scrimmages and practices as well. “We talk about iron sharpens iron, that’s really what we mean between the offensive line and defensive line,” Harsin said. The spring game will be $10 for general admission. Any minor (2-18) wearing a No. 11 jersey will receive free admission.
The decline of America’s pastime Walton’s Wisdom is a twice weekly sports column written by assistant sports editor and selfproclaimed sports wizard Brandon Walton. Opening day in Major League Baseball was this past week and no one cared. Don’t get me wrong, millions of people, including myself, are thrilled that baseball season is back. However, we are in the shrinking minority—baseball is no longer America’s pastime. With the growth of basketball and football, baseball has been lost in the shuffle. Baseball has fallen off drastically over the past decade. According to Nielsen ratings, the last nine World Series have produced eight of the lowest rated World Series in history. Game one of last year’s World Series was the lowestrated Game one on record. The fact is millions of people would rather watch the NFL, NBA, college football and college basketball. Why is this happening? The simple answer is that the game has changed. The MLB has cracked down
on steroid and PED use, ending the steroid-riddled era of baseball. The shift to baseball being a ‘pitcher’s game’ does not bode well for most fans. The world of sports today is more about entertainment than ever before. The decline in home runs is killing baseball’s audience. People don’t want to see pitchers throw no hitters and see low scoring games. They would rather see the long ball make a comeback. I am sorry to be the bearer of bad news to you all but that isn’t going to happen. This doesn’t mean players won’t hit home runs anymore. It just means there are going to be a lot less of them. People need to accept the fact that baseball has changed and realize that there is still a lot to be entertained by. MLB has a lot of talented players like Buster Posey, Mike Trout and Robinson Cano. So if you are one of those people who have fallen out of baseball, I urge you to come back. There are so many great games and moments in sports that you are missing.
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dot game rules Players take turns to join two adjacent dots with a horizontal or vertical line. If a player completes the last side of a box they initial that box and then draw another line. When all the boxes have been completed the winner is the player who has initialled the most boxes.
Da riddles 1. We hurt without moving. We poison without touching. We bear the truth and the lies. We are not to be judged by our size.What are we? 2. I’m not a pool, a tree, a slave, a website, or a shirt. What am I?
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Da riddles from monday 1. footsteps 2. 43 3. A bookkeeper 4. scent, cent, sent
fun facts 1. Antarctica was once as warm as the California coast. 2. The smell of chocolate increases theta brain waves, which can help trigger relaxation. 3. As a child, Beyonce charged her parents’ house guests $5 each to watch her perform. 4. One fourth of the bones in your body are in your feet.
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